[Bee Keeping]
It is unmeasurable of how great of an impact honey bees present in the human society. Most people think about honey bees and their contribution to our food supply - mainly being honey. Honey bees most crucial impact on human society is their contribution to our agriculture - their ability to pollinate. Honey bees provide pollination to crops that farmers harvest and sell to markets. Their pollination contributes further by pollinating crops that feed farm animals and ultimately harvested for meat and dairy products. Without the honey bee's pollinating abilities, humans and animals would not be able to maintain their quality of life (Bradbear).
[Pollinating]
Honey bees are not the only species of bees that can provide pollination for plants to grow. However, other bees cannot fully supply the volume of pollination that humans require to sustain our daily consumption rate. For this reason, it is because there are major differences between how honey bees and other bees are maintained by humans. If other bees could replace the services of honey bees, it would be too much of a cost for our agriculture and consumers to manage. One third of a human being's diet is directly dependent on the honey bee's pollination
(Bees and their role in Forest Livelihoods).
(Bees and their role in Forest Livelihoods).
[Honey]
The earliest recordings of bee keeping dates all the way back to 7,000BC. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks alike used honey as a sweetener and offered it as a gift to their Gods. Besides being offered to Gods, honey can be used as a sweetener in cooking recipes, embalming purposes, as a healing agent and even in beauty treatments. Currently, researchers have proven that honey used to dressed wounds may be more effective than modern day antibiotics.
[Beeswax]
Beeswax is another property of honey bees that has become quite popular among the human society. Beeswax can be commonly found in: candles, pharmaceutical drugs, cosmetics, artists' materials and furniture polish. Beeswax is produced by the worker bees to build the honeycomb cells that are found in the hive. The honeycomb cell is a crucial element in beekeeping because it produces the honey. After the worker bees have finished creating the honeycomb cell, it can be removed from the hive without damaging the hive itself.
